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I have the UPS anniversary starter set. It was actually the first set I bought for my son that got me back into O gauge. It is by no means scale but it is a nice set. The 4-4-2 is indestructable and the flat car with UPS delivery truck is great. There are also quite a few add on cars available.
Jay in Ottawa
I collect RPO cars with western road names, both produced cars from various makers in
three rail, but have some O scale kit built cars on three rail trucks. I visulalize building a USPS terminal and, maybe, an REA one to serve as a destination for
trains of these cars.
People used to say that those AMT/KMT/Franks's roundhouse UPS cars from the early 80's were "rare", so I have a set of almost 40 of them.
Do you mean a train composed of UPS or USPS cars....or a train made up of cars damaged by UPS or USPS during transit?
There is a Lionel boxcar and a Frank's Roundhouse box car on ebay.
I have one or two of those Frank's UPS cars, and do not run them, for I wasn't sure UPS actually had any boxcars lettered for themselves...(and doubted it, thinking they
were fantasy cars)
People used to say that those AMT/KMT/Franks's roundhouse UPS cars from the early 80's were "rare", so I have a set of almost 40 of them.
And they came in at least 4 different variations, including a GREEN one! That one may be considered rare.
A seller at a recent Southern Division TCA meet in Florida had lots of different UPS O gauge train cars plus many different vehicles. He had all 4 variations of the Franks Roundhouse UPS box car, a Lionel Operating box car, two Lionel flat cars each carrying one long silver UPS trailer, plus 2 other flat cars one or possibly both of which he said was made by Geller. The vehicles included several different delivery trucks and NASCAR racing cars.
Bill